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Singer John Mayer has sported many looks over the years: clean-shaven and tousle-haired, tousle-haired and mustachioed, long-haired and clean-shaven. Most recently, though, he has settled on long-haired, mustachioed and conspicuously goateed, a grooming choice that makes him look a lot like beloved pirate-portrayer Johnny Depp. How do he and others rate in a lineup? There is only one Captain Jack Sparrow.

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John Mayer: Johnny-come-latelySteve Granitz

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Johnny Depp: Accept no substitutesMax Nash

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Orlando Bloom: Swashbuckler second classPeter Kramer

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Sir Richard Branson: Not a pirate but a knightJeff McIntosh

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